Bull Connor
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Theophilus Eugene “Bull” Connor was born in Selma, Alabama, on July 11th, 1897. Alabama was a hard-core Confederate state which was still coming to terms with the end of the American Civil War and the emancipation of the slaves. The KKK was strong in the state and the ‘Jim Crow’ laws were rigidly enforced. Lynching was a common way of keeping the African-American community ‘in their place’ and those responsible invariably simply got away with their crime. Connor is most associated with the civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama where to many the very public role of Connor and what took place in Birmingham seemed to epitomise the racial problems that existed in the South.